Deion Sanders' Colorado Buffaloes eliminated from bowl contention amid lost season

It volition beryllium different losing play for Deion Sanders arsenic Colorado caput shot coach.

After a 29-22 nonaccomplishment to West Virginia connected Saturday, Sanders' Buffaloes are eliminated from vessel contention and volition decorativeness with a losing grounds for the 2nd clip successful 3 seasons.

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Colorado caput shot manager Deion Sanders, Oct. 25, successful Salt Lake City, Utah. (AP Photo/Tyler Tate)

"This is not who we are. We're amended than this, and they merit amended than this. I privation amended than this. I consciousness similar I manager amended than this. I consciousness similar we got players that are truthful overmuch amended than what the accumulation is that we're putting out," Sanders said aft the game.

"So then, you got to place the coaches, that's us, and that starts with me, due to the fact that I consciousness similar we got the nucleus wrong the locker country that we should beryllium getting it done. I don't deliberation we played a squad that's this athletically and physically amended than us. I truly don't, and I'll basal connected that."

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Deion Sanders, center, with his sons Shedeur Sanders, left, and Deion Sanders Jr. (Kirby Lee-Imagn Images)

Many critics wondered however Sanders' squad would execute successful 2025 aft the departure of his backmost son, Shedeur Sanders, and two-way prima Travis Hunter, to the NFL.

Shedeur and Hunter had been staples of Deion's assemblage coaching vocation dating backmost to his archetypal 2 seasons astatine Jackson State.

Ahead of Saturday's must-win game, Sanders appointed five-star freshman Julian Lewis the team's starting quarterback. Lewis threw 2 touchdown passes successful his archetypal collegiate start. 

The squad had cycled betwixt quarterbacks Kaidon Salter and Ryan Staub crossed the archetypal 9 games of the year.

Colorado Buffaloes caput manager Deion Sanders walks on the sidelines, Saturday, astatine Milan Puskar Stadium successful Morgantown, W.Va.  (Ben Queen/Imagn Images)

Now, Lewis has officially mislaid his redshirt status, with conscionable 2 games near successful a mislaid season.

Last year, Colorado went 9-4, arsenic Sanders went connected to motion a five-year, $54 cardinal extension, which puts him nether declaration done 2029.

Colorado athletics manager Rick George expressed assurance successful Sanders earlier this week. 

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"I’m arrogant of Coach Prime. It’s been a pugnacious twelvemonth what he’s been through. He’s been a trooper, been moving hard, motivating. He’s doing the things I privation him to bash arsenic coach. We conscionable gotta triumph much FB games," George told reporters.

In July, Sanders announced doctors had removed his bladder aft the find of a tumor. 

Sanders said determination has been nary grounds of crab since the surgery.

Doctors said a conception of Sanders' intestine was reconstructed to relation arsenic a bladder. Sanders faced questions astir whether he’d beryllium up for coaching aft his wellness scare, but helium remains steadfast successful his committedness to Colorado.

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